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DFARS 252.223-7002 Safety Precautions for Ammunition and Explosives

Does the regulation require it to flow down?

Yes

(g)(1): in 'every subcontract that involves ammunition or explosives', with no value floor; the government retains the right to evaluate the subcontractor's safety program.

Form
verbatim — 'insert this clause, including this paragraph (g)'
Reaches
all tiers (self-replicating: every ammunition/explosives subcontract carries (g) onward)

Checked against acquisition.gov on 2026-08-11 · edition NOV 2023 · base v0.9.3 Read the text ↗

What it makes you produce

3 items for your checklist, slowest first.

  1. A program you have to be running

    You are either running it or you are not, and what the prime asks for is the date it started.

    • A plant run to DoD Manual 4145.26, the contractors' safety manual for ammunition and explosives — siting and quantity-distance, grounding, storage and training

      DFARS 252.223-7002(b)(1)

  2. Something you write2

    Days to weeks, and nobody outside your company has to agree to it.

    • Immediate notice to the contracting officer — the fastest clock in this clause

      Owed as soon as a mishap involving ammunition or explosives occurs

      DFARS 252.223-7002(d)(1)
    • A written report to the contracting officer, with the investigation (d)(2) requires behind it

      Owed after the same mishap, once the investigation the contract or the contracting officer calls for is under way

      DFARS 252.223-7002(d)(3)

When it is used

Comes in when the contract involves ammunition or explosives (prescription 223.370-5). Flows down verbatim, no dollar threshold: (g) requires inserting the clause into every subcontract that involves ammunition or explosives.

Read closely

The edition of the manual that governs is the one in effect on the date of the solicitation, and the schedule can add requirements on top. (b)(2) opens the facilities, the people and the safety program documentation to Government evaluation. (c) is the clock that hurts on the compliance side: 30 days from a notice of noncompliance to correct it and say so, with the Government able to direct a halt to performance if it is not corrected, and correction costs are not reimbursed unless the contract says so.

The 12 templates that name it, with the line
76CORPDOC 2A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Commercial Products/Services under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 265143CORPDOC 3A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Fixed Price Non-Commercial Items under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 373155CORPDOC 4A — FAR/DFARS Flowdown Provisions for Cost-Reimbursement/T&M Subcontracts under a DoD Prime ContractLockheed Martinline 409233RTX Flowdown of U.S. Government Contract Clauses Under U.S. Government ContractsRTXline 141660Raytheon TC-003 — Supplement 2: Government Contract Provisions from the DFARSRTXline 78166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-001 — U.S. Government Firm Fixed Price Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2438166Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-003 — U.S. Government T&M Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2377168Northrop Grumman CTM-P-ST-004 — U.S. Government Cost Reimbursement Order (Not for Commercial Products and Services)Northrop Grummanline 2468240L3Harris LGL-50.F1 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Other Than Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 2403106L3Harris LGL-50.F2 — General T&C and Flowdown Clauses for Commercial Products/Services under a U.S. Government ContractL3Harrisline 1690273BAE Systems Inc. USGOVA — FAR/DFARS Flow Down Provisions for Subcontracts/Purchase Orders under a U.S. Government (DoD) Prime ContractBAE Systemsline 1144107Honeywell — Supplemental Provisions Under Fixed Price U.S. Government Contracts for Commercial ItemsHoneywellline 637

Source: acquisition.gov, DFARS 252.223-7002. CODIFIED REGIME, read 2026-08-11 on the part-252 page at DFARS Change 5/7/2026: "As prescribed in 223.370-5, use the following clause:" with designation (NOV 2023). RFO CLASS DEVIATION 2026-O0018 (DFARS part 223, effective February 1, 2026) CARRIES THIS CLAUSE AT THE SAME NUMBER: the memo prescribes it at 223.370-5 and prints it (NOV 2023). So the two regimes AGREE here on number, prescription and designation, and an agreement read is recorded because the alternative is silence that a reader cannot tell from an unread deviation. TO RE-DERIVE THE DEVIATION HALF WITHOUT REDOING THE RESEARCH: fetch acquisition.gov/sites/default/files/page_file_uploads/DoD_RFO_Deviation_Part-23.pdf (593744 bytes, 22 pages, DARS Tracking Number 2026-O0018, "Effective February 1, 2026, contracting officers shall use"), run pdftotext -layout over it, and grep for 252.223-7002 — 6 occurrences on 2026-08-11, poppler pdftotext. Both regimes read against their primary sources on 2026-08-11, and the deviation half re-read a second time and the recipe above measured on 2026-08-11 (verified 2026-08-11)

This is research, not legal advice. It states what the regulation says about this clause and cites the paragraph behind it. It does not rule on your order, and it does not rule on whether a prime's markings are correct.